PORTSMOUTH, VA -- The Navy recently submitted the capabilities development document for a new amphibious warship to the Joint Staff and anticipates wrapping up the preliminary design phase for the ship -- dubbed LX(R) -- this spring, according to a service official. The program office is currently receiving affordability plans from the two amphibious ship builders in the United States -- General Dynamics NASSCO and Ingalls Shipbuilding, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, Marianne Lyons, deputy program manager for LPD-17...
